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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Treasure Chest Thursday - Isaac Seaver's Birth Certificate

...It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the birth certificate forIsaac Seaver in 1823 in Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts:

I obtained this birth certificate by postal mail from the Westminster town clerk's office on 17 September 1990.

Here is the transcription of the birth certificate (handwritten parts in italics, form lines underlined):

The Commonwealth of MassachusettsUnited States of AmericaCopy of Record of Birth

TOWN of WESTMINSTER

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am clerk of the Town of Westminsterthat as such I have custody of the records of births required by law to be kept in my office, that amongsuch records is one relating to the birth of

Isaac Sever

and that the following is a true copy of so much of said record as relates to said birth, namely:

Date of Birth October 16, 1823 Time __________Place of Birth Westminster, MA

And I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a truy copy from said records.Witness my hand and seal of said TOWN of WESTMINSTERon this seventeenth day of September 19 90.......................... Denise L. MacAloney............................................ Clerk(Seal)

Year 1823Vol. BirthsPage 246No. --

While this "certificate" is an official record of the birth of Isaac Sever, it is not the "original" record. It is a Derivative Source record since it was not the first record of the event.

The Original Source record is a handwritten Westminster Town Clerk's record book for Births. I think that the original volume is this entry from the LDS Family History Library Catalog (FHLC):

I also noted that all of the microfilm numbers in the FHLC are linked to an order form so that I can order the film and have it sent to my local FamilySearch Center, and pay for it online. Very convenient!

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I am a native San Diegan, a graduate of San Diego State University, a retired aerospace engineer, a genealogist and a family guy.
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